“Is it not ironical that in a planned society of controlled workers given compulsory assignments, where religious expression is suppressed, the press controlled, and all media of communication censored, where a puppet government is encouraged but denied any real authority, where great attention is given to efficiency and character reports, and attendance at cultural assemblies is mandatory, where it is avowed that all will be administered to each according to his needs and performance required from each according to his abilities, and where those who flee are tracked down, returned, and punished for trying to escape - in short in the milieu of the typical large American secondary school - we attempt to teach 'the democratic system'?”

As a home-schooling parent, I can say that you obviously aren't speaking from any real experience but merely parroting the party line of the public school unions which have turned schools into a labor racket.

Children are ALWAYS learning, in school and out.  The key is to provide the examples you wish your children to emulate.  The best teachers are facilitators to the inquiring minds of their students, reminding them that they can accomplish anything if they put their minds to it.

Indeed civics and the structure and intent of republican government are crucial subjects for Americans, otherwise they can become unwitting slaves to de facto rule.  Public schooling too often has become a one-size fits all approach, promoting obedience to 'authorities' and 'experts' rather than the responsibilities of self-sufficiency, self-determinism, and their natural born rights that are never subject to a vote or can be legislated away.

True empowerment is founded upon the rights and responsibilities of man.  In contrast, entitlement arises from ignorance, dependency, and a distorted sense of fairness, where the government acts as an all-powerful entity, manipulating outcomes to benefit those who use mass influence to strengthen and enrich their positions of authority, constantly contended for by those craving power.

Frankly, I've had enough of socialism in schools, nor do I want "to create more coordinated strategic mental processing capabilities."  That is absolutely fascistic to its core — Hitler and Stalin would be proud.  Fred, do you have any self-awareness what-so-ever?

Sillik — hahaha, lololol; only a prideful ignoramus (not understanding fiscal law; and, existing within an enclave of mentally ill children) could believe that an individual sovereign (within a constitutional republican form of government) would owe a socialist's enslaving financial phantasm. Socialism is a major challenge to lawfull abilities and a mature self-awareness. I understand the current occupying statist theocracy (your government / your god) tenders fallacious information — as concerns the devine debt you just quoted; BUT ! ! !, I don't share your god or he/she/its demagoguery. What is the reason this time you can't stay on topic? 

Mike, Norwalk, so you're blaming a social strategy like Socialism, that we have never practiced, in your claim that you owe our government nothing. The vast majority of the population practices psychotic behavior and have transacted trillions in nuclear military weaponry that any Socialist would tell you we don't need, nor did we ever.  Nevertheless we must pay the debt to prevent further violence and we can do that by raising GDP.  The incorporation of the maximum wage will increase productivity quite effectively and we will literally manage competently through the National Debt. Socialism is the challenge of social abilities to create a balanced economy. 

Sillik, spoken like a traditional socialist. I wasn't blaming, just stating obvious and simple facts. The established meaning of socialism is: any of various economic, religious and political theories, philosophies or movements outside nature’s law advocating collective or governmental / religious ownership and administration of property (real / chattel / sensorial beings, etc.) along with the means of production and distribution of goods. All of Marx's 10 planks of communism have been implemented by the occupying statist theocracy infesting this land (communism is an administrative form of socialism), AND, your continual parroting of Marx, Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Hitler, etc. only goes to show, you are lying here (socialism is regularly practiced here). You can't change the definition of socialism — it is to well established over the centuries.

Sillik, "The vast majority of the population practices psychotic behavior" as you stated, is accurate because of their adoption of socialism (by example: transacting trillions in nuclear military weaponry — the socialist demands such as we need it).

Sillik, what is the cause and effect / the reason why/how paying a socialist's unconstitutional / fiscal law supposed debt is going to prevent further violence? (there is an unequaled credulity)Those 2 concepts do not correlate in any dimension you may be going through at this time. The debt you speak of can NOT be paid off by raising GDP or any other way. That has been explained to you ad nauseam BUT ! ! ! it is an astute in the obvious observation that socialists can NOT grasp, truth, facts, economics etc.

Incorporation of the maximum wage — WHAT ? ? ?  — what is that?; AND, what is the correlation between that and the National Debt ? ? ?  Socialism challenges noble/human abilities while creating economic failure.

Mike, you are absolutely right that "it is an astute in the obvious observation that socialists can NOT grasp, truth, facts, economics etc." 

It is a simple matter of self-preservation — the truth is their death knell.  Like gamblers losing a rigged game, facing the truth means admitting they've been conned.  They keep doubling down, and once completely lost, curse the world and bring everyone down with them.  "Burn it all down!" becomes their death song. 

Hypocrisy is their creed and denial their practice.  Hate is love, slavery is freedom, war is peace, debt is money, honesty is violence, lies are truth, sex is a construct, crime is justice, responsibility is bondage, victimhood is currency, blame is influence, and death is liberty.  There is no greater example of evil  incarnate.  Their lust for power is insatiable, their gratitude non-existent, their envy self-evident to all but themselves.  Their fruits will be their destruction.

Good Lord, I will not let them drag the rest of us down into their pit, not if I can help it.